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It was launched on an Atlas V 541. The cost of the launch service plus the cost of the operations to fly the rover to Mars and run it for one Martian year on the surface was about $700M. Written Jun 12, 2015.
Curiosity cost $2.5 billion, and features lots of gizmos to look for the chemicals that support life as we know it. The lander set down where there are signs of water. So much good work done in anonymous silence is a puzzle. OK, so it took 253 days to reach Mars. NASA needs to do a better job of building a constituency for its work, and launching the imaginations of the next generation of rocket scientists.